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STEAMPUNK, STRINGS & STORYTELLING SONGS

  • MAAS Building 1325 N Randolph St Philadelphia, PA, 19122 United States (map)

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featuring: This Way to the Egress / Charming Disaster / Elizabeth LaPrelle & Brian Dolphin

From murder ballads to gothic folk to steampunk-inspired vaudeville music: an evening of songs that tell stories to haunt, enchant, and entertain. 

This Way to the Egress 

If Tom Waits and Patti Smith made a musical lovechild, then sent that kid train-hopping until it was old enough to come back home and form a band…… sure enough that band would be like EGRESS. Equal parts unruly vaudeville, ebullient world-beat, and three-ring circus, EGRESS catapults the audience with their rambunctious stage show, all the while playing an amalgamation of worldly influences that defies genres.

Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/thisway2theegress/

Charming Disaster

Goth-folk musical duo Charming Disaster, based in Brooklyn, NY, perform playfully dark original songs inspired by death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, science, and the occult. “Charming Disaster are unusual, spooky, wickedly talented, and completely unafraid to delve deep into the underworld in exploration of all things lurking in the dark...they have a knack for making the macabre fun.” –Mixed Alternative 

Listen/learn more: https://linktr.ee/charmingdisaster

Elizabeth LaPrelle and Brian Dolphin

Elizabeth LaPrelle and Brian Dolphin are a married duo who share a love of bright vocal harmonies, eerie traditional songs, and heartfelt originals. Elizabeth is a world-renowned ballad singer and scholar from rural Virginia and Brian is a songwriter, producer, and ethnomusicologist who has studied folk music all over the world. There will be many stringed instruments and decades of experience at their backs. A concert with them is like being a guest at their kitchen table.

Learn more: https://linktr.ee/dolphinandyou